Programmable Philosophy with Steve Phillips - Part 1

Hacker Talk

Steve Phillips, is an interesting developer, privacy advocate, hacker and thinker.

Tune into this episode of Hacker Talk as we are joined by Steve Phillips in this Programmable Philosophy special.

In this episode we cover:

Steve's journey into technology

Being able to build and utilize tools

Cypherpunk

Privacy, Encryption

Philosophy with programming

Proving philosophical theories with programming

Python, Django

Paul gram

Putting the technologist first in companies

Combining programming with entrepreneurship

Going from utilizing one computer core to multithreading

Clojure lisp, using all the libraries from lisp and java.

Static typing

Golang in 2010, From the one-year anniversary to hacker news. Golang's history.

go fix - Automatically rewriting code for new API calls and dependencies.

Creating software that lasts forever, making it easy for developers to upgrade old versions. Make standards that the code will use to

automatically upgrade the old code, and avoid breaking core functionality.

Dependency management

Long build times

V programming language

Fast compile times in V and Go.

Green threads, go routines. Efficient concurrency with low overhead.

Small runtime languages.

Designing encrypted protocols, threat models.

Use libsodium

LeapChat secure chat

Securing a large number of people

End-to-end encryption with web applications, not trusting the middleman

Trusted service workers in modern browsers, preinstall javascript. Detecting malicious new versions of javascript code.

Web assembly, practical use-cases for web assembly. Allowing users to run precompiled binaries on any platform in a browser.

How Web assembly run's in a very low overhead sandbox.

Docker will be replaced by podman

How docker is not the silver bullet for security, alternatives to it.

Trusted microservices environments.

Privilege separation

web assembly nano process model

No need to trust the libraries that you use.

Sandboxing, Electrum apps.

Running C++ 20% slower with web assembly.

Shopify's and Cloudflare's use of web assembly

Nomad, Kubernetes is too complex

Docker daemon

Links:

https://tryingtobeawesome.com

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16153182-cypherpunks

http://www.executablephilosophy.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)

https://www.djangoproject.com/

https://clojure.org/guides/learn/sequential_colls

https://www.educative.io/answers/what-is-a-goroutine

https://vlang.io/

https://www.leapchat.org/

https://doc.libsodium.org/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API

https://webassembly.org/docs/security/

https://www.nomadproject.io/

https://podman.io/